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Copper Hill [and Cameron Hill]. Progress reports and joint final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 12/10/1972 to 11/2/1974.
In a search for possible economic Permian coal seams buried at the southern end of the Boorthanna Trough of the Arckaringa Basin, the Petromin joint venture consortium selected an area to drill where it was inferred that such coal might lie within 300...-
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Weedina coal deposit, Arckaringa Basin. Mining proponent's submission to FEAC, including supporting geological data.
In June 1986 Cyprus Australia Coal Co., a wholly-owned subsidiary of a large American coal producer and marketer then holding exploration licences over the Weedina coal deposit in the far north of South Australia, submitted to the South Australian...-
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Williams Bore (Weedinna Coalfield). Annual reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 13/4/2005 to 3/6/2014.
An area of 304 square km was taken up by SAPEX to allow it to evaluate afresh known sub-bituminous coal measures in the Permian Mount Toondina Formation that constitute the Weedina coal deposit. This deposit, located ~90 km north-east of Coober Pedy,...-
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Published: 11 Jul 1914
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Arckaringa [North-east]. Annual reports to licence full surrender, for the period 13/4/2005 to 3/6/2014.
An area of 185 square km was taken up by SAPEX to allow it to evaluate afresh known sub-bituminous coal measures in the Permian Mount Toondina Formation that constitute the East Wintinna coal deposit. This deposit had been discovered by Meekatharra...-
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Published: 11 Jul 1914
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Noorina Dam [part of Getty's Arckaringa Basin Coal Project]. Progress and final reports for the period 23/12/84 to 31/5/90.
TARGET: Economic sub-bituminous Permian coals in the Mount Toondina Formation, similar to those found by Getty in the Weedina Coal Deposit to the north. EXPLORATION: A review of existing seismic, gravity and magnetic data, aerial photograph...-
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Mount Dutton. Progress reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 13/7/1985 to 29/1/1990.
TARGET: Sub-bituminous coal seams within the Early Permian Mount Toondina Formation in the Mount Dutton - Nilpinna Springs region, these possibly being similar to, or forming an extension of, the large Weedina coal deposit recently discovered 20 km to...-
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Report on Pexa Oil's 1971 geophysical evaluation of the Arckaringa Block [farmout] area.
The structural relationships of the sediments of the Boorthanna Trough are discussed. This feature has an areal extent of approximately 6480 square miles, with dimensions of 32 miles by 180 miles north to south. The structural limits of the trough...-
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Organic petrology of samples from a selected group of wells in or near the Arckaringa Block.
34 selected drill core and cuttings samples from six wells were assessed by petrographic methods for their degree of organic maturation and petroleum source potential. The sampled sequence ranged in age from ?Devonian through to Permian, Jurassic and...-
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Cadaree Hill (part of the Stuart Range Joint Venture Project). Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 11/8/1977 to 10/8/1978.
Following the first public announcement on 18/11/1976 by Western Mining Corp. of its giant Olympic Dam copper, gold and uranium discovery on Roxby Downs Station, Newmont Pty Ltd began a detailed assessment of the Stuart Shelf region of South...-
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Wirrangula Hill. Progress and final reports for the period 16/11/81 to 15/6/82.
Investigations into the coal prospectivity of the buried Permian sedimentary sequence within the northern Arckaringa Basin, 70 km north-east of Coober Pedy, included an extensive data review, 6-line gravity survey, and reconnaissance drilling of 4...-
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Published: 15 Jun 1982
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Mooloogoorana Swamp. Progress reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 20/2/1980 to 19/12/1980.
9 widely spaced vertical percussion holes totalling 1340 m were drilled 30 km south-west of Anna Creek Homestead, to search for possible Early Permian coal seams in a relatively shallowly buried sub-basin at the southern end of the Boorthanna Trough....-
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Oodnadatta. Progress reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 1/11/1973 to 7/6/1974.
Shallow, open pit mineable near-surface coal within Permian sediments along the eastern rim of the Boorthanna Trough was the target of exploration in EL 108 and in adjoining EL 104 to the south. After conducting photo-interpretation on aerial...-
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ExpNotes WARRINA: Explanatory Notes WARRINA, SH 53-03.
The Peake and Denison Inliers (comprising the Davenport Range, Denison Range and small basement inliers to the east) form the dominant geological structure on WARRINA. The Inliers include outcrops of Palaeoproterozoic metamorphic basement which is...-
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